The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1887-08-26
JEDGE WAXEM ABROAD.
HE AND MANDY LEAVE ITALY AND
GO TO SWITZERLAND.

"Reminiscences of the Tariff Charged in
Fair Italia-A Quiet Sunday in switzer-
land That Reminded Them Both of the
Quiet Sundays in Wayback-The Alps.
Especial Correspondence
GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug. !.
think the last letter wrote to wore val
liable journal was from Lake Como Italy,
and here we air this week III Genevy From
Italy to Switzerland, the land of ST. Peter TO
the land of John Calvin, and more scenery
betwixt them than would make n heaven fer
both of 'em and leave plenty of room fer ther
diferents of relijus oppinons to moove
around without clashin up agin one anuther.
We tuck our own time i'll comm over here
from Como fer good deal Of the way is up
hill, and though the rodes is good, Mandy
Wouldent ride moren sixty-five mile q dav
nohow. She said she cou!dent do it and do
Justis to the scenery. That's what she said
but thar was stagin in several places and l
think it was ware and tare on The arnicky
hottie that she wanted to pervent. have
discovered that long stage ride, to anlnia-
toor, has tendency to skin him alive.
The only travin' on passes I've done sencc
the passidge of that doggone interstate COM
merse bill has bin betwixt here and Lake
Como. But it wasent railroad passes-it was
mounting passes, and we had to do it by stage
and pay fer it besides. This is the fust time,
Mr.. Edditor, | have attempted to git off n
joke on that interstate commerce bill. whitch
L thought was goin to be mighty good joke
on the railrodes, but which scanned to he
retroactive, as it wair, on to the statesmen
that voted for its passidge You will excuse
my levlty, hope, and take it as sign that
l am recoverin my usule sperrits after the
seveer blow that was struck bv the monopo-
lists at the intrusts of the national legislators.
who was so zealus in the cause of the people
that they neglected to look out fer therselves.
My views on the tariff question air under
goin change, at least OH this side of the
oshen. l have noticed all over Italy that
every back driver, and boatman, and gide
and every other public servant, outside of
politics, when he comes to collect his fare.
always wants more than you had figgered on
lettln him have, and when you object, he
says "Tarifm "Tarif!". the only English he
knows, and pulls out q printed card. showiu
you the legal price of the job, made that way
to skin unsuspectin victim clean to the
bone. At Vesuvius fer instants when a red
hot peace of lary fell neer where we w,ls, one
OF the gides grabbed it up and come to me
wantin penny to put in it, and let it stick
thar, when it got cold, fer a mermentum of
vulcano. l put up the money, though l
dlunt want to pertickerlerly, and before it
wus cold started to carry it along ON the end
OF stick; but the glide said / had to pay a
franc for it. and pulled the tariff bill on me-
1t wus my penny too! Well got SO mad |
throwed the whole thing into the crater. and
come mighty nigh servin the blamed glide tile
Same way. although l am usually law abidin
sltlZcli. Until return to the land of the free
| am IN favor OF tariff reform and eff my col
lees Mr.. Sam Randall, could come over here
Ter a season, it would make free trader out
of him in no time.
**4 ..s
But am wanderin from the suhieck. We
saturday night, and tie .. Switzerland ON a
observed in the good old .lonerin Sunday We
restln quiet all dav. We was at a little
mounting town whar simpliSity and roora.. .ey
prevailed and whar everybody that met ms
on the road passed the time of day and took
of ther hat, and thar was church bell
a-ringin and the smell of the woods come
down from the hills and the fragrants of the
flowers come up from the valleys and men and
winIlllen i'll their Sunday go 10 meetn cln Z
was staniin around in the shatle of tue
houses Oh the street and gossipin and lauohin
in a quiet way fer all the world like Sunday
morin in Wayback 1t made US mighty
nigh homesirk, fer it was all in forrin Ian
gwidge except the sunshine and the words
and the flowers. but it was SO much better
than any Sunday we had experienced se,,ce
leavn Waybaek that we sot down on q tie
shady hilltop overlookin the peeceful SC lie
ami didn't say word to each other for @ full
hour, but put in the time a-tliinkin and
a-thinkin and wonderin what they was q
doin in that other peeceful rooral deestrick
so fer away. AT last Mandy took out her .
handkerchief and wiped her eyes and kinder
laughed gentle laugh and said eff the dust
was that bad we'd better be goin, anl we
strolled along down the road, not gon any,
where in pertickler, and not keerins nu h
whether we got thar or not.
The scenery in Switzerland beats tho
world, and will beat it tell we can git The
Rocky lnountings moved east and Civ. art q
chance to assist mater. Fer n week er more
we was in sight of snow aud ice and some
times we walked on snow drifts 800 foot dc,r
and mile wide, and towerin above us tell
ther tops seemed punchin hole into the eter-
nal blue of the heavens, stool the .lessulet
peaks, so grand and gloomy that it male my
throat fill up and kinder choked me 10 look at
them. I am glad Switzerland is free coun-
try, fer these grand old mountings sIloIni
know no crown but thar own eternal SHOWS
set Off by the glitterin stars that seems toshiue
i'll that empty white settin.
Mandy wus disappointed because she udent
take glasheer home with her TO make n
spring house out Of to keep milk and butter
i'll, but consoled her by buyin her pair of
nttin needle holders made out of shamnise
horns.
AS we expect to be in this New Hamshire OF
Europ fer week er SO, will close this letter
now and Civ your readers few more pints
in another one. Give my love to all inquirin
friends. Yours truely, w. Q. WAxEM.